Re: Coo coo ca choo (for eeeeeeeeek)

I am the Chick-on


Wanna ride? I promise it's not steep.

(and if you don't have 3D glasses just put your finger on your nose and stare at it)

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chick-on
I am the Chick-on

Really nice, especially with an enlarged the photo!



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2013 10:45AM by plawrence.

Stare at my finger, my nose or both?

My nose hurts now.

You weren't suppose to stick it up your nose.

(and I guess the webmaster didn't like the picture)

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chick-on
(and I guess the webmaster didn't like the picture)

I still haven't found where I stashed those glasses.

Well you at least see me in the conductors seat, no?

btw... the full steps are:
1 - place index finger on nose
2 - start at screen looking thru index finger
3 - smack yourself in head with free hand

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chick-on
Well you at least see me in the conductors seat, no?

Oh yeah, I see you now.

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Old Dude

Did you smack yourself in the head?

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Didn't see the Chick-on at first. That makes the shot. Best shot is still chick-on sitting next to Colonel Sanders. I was trying to find the old birth of chick-on with pictures at a carnival game.

Here it is:


http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?1,30596,30679

The carnival seems like a very appropriate place for chick-on's birth.

I pretty sure Chick-on was hatched way before that photo. You can see him and his siblings stuffed underneath the counter in that photo.

The photo is of the day that Chick-on was adopted by Bill-e-g.

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chick-on
Well you at least see me in the conductors seat, no?

Are you laying an egg, Man?

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chick-on

Well you at least see me in the conductors seat, no?

That's why the enlarged photo is better.

(BTW, you were sitting in the engineer's seat. The locomotive engineer operates the train. The conductor collects the tickets from the passengers (among other duties).)

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chick-on

Well you at least see me in the conductors seat, no?

That's why the enlarged photo is better.

(BTW, you were sitting in the engineer's seat. The locomotive engineer operates the train. The conductor collects the tickets from the passengers (among other duties).)

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Check the movie "Emperor of the North". Ernest Borgnine played a train conductor.

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Old Dude

But in real life, it's the engineer that operates the train from the locomotive's cab.

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I thought the engineer was the guy that sat in a cubicle and bitched all day.

Do I look like I'm in a cubicle being grossly overpaid?


I didn't think so.

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chick-on
I thought the engineer was the guy that sat in a cubicle and bitched all day.

Indeed.

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plawrence
But in real life, it's the engineer that operates the train from the locomotive's cab.

In real life the engineer and the conductor are in the cab. And it's the conductor that is in charge of the train.

Not the conductors I see every time when I ride Caltrain, Metrolink, or Amtrak.

On freight trains they'll ride in the cab nowadays because most freight trains are caboose-less today. But back in the day when most freight trains had a caboose, the conductor would reside in the caboose while the engineer was in the cab.

Don't fret. Ur right. I'll get my cat Toonces to give The Old Dood and Eeek a ride instead.

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plawrence
Not the conductors I see every time when I ride Caltrain, Metrolink, or Amtrak.

They don't count.

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On freight trains they'll ride in the cab nowadays because most freight trains are caboose-less today. But back in the day when most freight trains had a caboose, the conductor would reside in the caboose while the engineer was in the cab.

Yes, but we aren't talking about the ancient past.

Please do step #3.

ah... nevermind... I just did it... now I feel better.

Now you rugrats get off my train!

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Coo coo ca choo...an insane chicken with a cold? on a choo choo? eggsactly.

ALL ABOARD THE CRAZY TRAIN, PS THATS NOT A REAL YOSEMITE TRAIN, FAKE FAKE FAKE. JUST A STAND IN FOR THE TOURISTS. BUT THE BIRD IS REAL,

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MY HAPPY PLACE
ALL ABOARD THE CRAZY TRAIN, PS THATS NOT A REAL YOSEMITE TRAIN, FAKE FAKE FAKE. JUST A STAND IN FOR THE TOURISTS. BUT THE BIRD IS REAL,

It's very much a real train that operated inside Yosemite National Park. It was used to help haul supplies and material to the O'Shaughnessy Dam site via the Hetch Hetchy Railroad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy_6

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Leave No Trace

I stand corrected, its a Real, fake one. lol because i was thinking of the tracks that went between Merced and El Portal, Either way thanks for the info as i was not aware of the history of that engine.